As we saw in these blogs, when you start deploying Office 365 to your users, Cached Exchange Mode becomes more important if you want a good user experience. But what about other items within Office 365? What about Microsoft Lync? What about Microsoft Lync in an RDS/VDI environment?

I didn’t know. I, of course, have heard and seen the marketing materials about how the Citrix Optimization Pack for Lync should help the experience. But, I wanted to see for myself. Click below. You may be interested to see this as well.

A Few Things I Find Interesting With The Optimization Pack

First, it works for Lync 2010, 2013 and Online servers. As you start looking at deploying Office 365, it is very easy to see the value of a Lync Online implementation. With the Citrix optimization pack, you can still achieve the same benefits you would get with an on-premise deployment like Lync 2010 and 2013.

Second, it supports any type of XenApp/XenDesktop deployment including published applications, shared desktops, non-persistent desktops and persistent desktops.

And finally, it demonstrates another way that Citrix continues to extend the Microsoft platform.

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Daniel Feller is a Lead Architect at Citrix. With a app and desktop virtualization history dating back to 1997, Daniel has participated in many different deployments taking on many different roles. After graduating from Purdue University, Daniel started out as an IT Admin deploying WinFrame and MetaFrame 1.0. Daniel soon joined Citrix Consulting as one of the first consultants and spent many years working on some of the world’s largest and most complex environments. In addition to field projects, Daniel has also authored several well known whitepapers like the XenDesktop Design Handbook and created the intricate logic behind Citrix Project Accelerator. Daniel can usually be seen speaking at conferences focusing on design topics for application and desktop virtualization.